In order to decrease the number of blacklisted packages, the first build is now run with a timeout of 18h (previously: 12h) and the 2nd with 24h timeout (previously: 18h). (h01ger)

We now also vary the CPU model on amd64 (and soon on i386 too) so that one build is performed using a "AMD Opteron 62xx class CPU" while the other is done using a "Intel Core Processor (Haswell)". This is now possible as proftitbricks.com offers VMs running both types of CPU and have generously increased their sponsorship once more. (h01ger)

Profitbricks increased our storage space by 400 GB which will be used to setup a 2nd build node for the coreboot/OpenWrt/NetBSD/Arch Linux/Fedora tests. This 2nd build node will run 398 days in the future for testing reproducibility on a different date.

diffoscope development
diffoscope 52 was released with changes from Mattia Rizzolo, h01ger, Satyam Zode and Reiner Herrmann, who also did the release. Notable changes included:

As usual, diffoscope 52 is available on Debian, Archlinux and PyPI, other distributions will hopefully soon update.
Package reviews
28 reviews have been added, 11 have been updated and 94 have been removed in this week.
14 FTBFS bugs were reported by Chris Lamb (one being was a duplicate of a bug filed by Sebastian Ramacher an hour earlier).
Misc.
This week's edition was written by Lunar, Holger 'h01ger' Levsen and Chris Lamb and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible builds folks on IRC.

13 September 2013

The first time I found this cute game, was around 2009, but for a bunch of reasons I haven t been able to get it into the archive until now. Pink Pony is a cute game in which you have to control a pink pony who s main goal is to last in the game more time than the other ponies. You might remember the game Tron, or the film, in which there were light cycles who left a trace behind, with which the other cycles crashed. Well, this is the similar game concept, only with cute ponies instead of light cycles. You can see a video of the game in action, if you want to get a feeling of how it is.
Thomas Weber (Ginko), has published a newer version of the game (1.3.1) a couple of days ago, and that is the one that has entered Debian repositories (sid) today. Thanks, Ginko, for this lovely game!
Even though the game might not seem too appealing for some of the adult users of Debian or Ubuntu, maybe some of their kids will like it as much as I do. The game is quite quick, though, so very young kids might have trouble controlling the pony. I would suspect it might be all right for kids above 9 years old, but I haven t been able to test my hypothesis, so if you find out, please tell me